Back to Which Reality?
Heh… as expected, the ever fun-loving Malaysians. once back from long festive breaks, we all can’t wait to catch up with friends over coffee or TT. Hartamas was power packed even on Sunday night.
The differences between topics of conversations in hometown and back here in the city:
Hometown chats:
1. Our local prince’s next masterplan; to make or to break the relationship of the two states.
2. Whether Datukship is fit for people who are capable of toying with the local police force, self inflicting a ‘crime’ in public in front of a surprisingly working CCTV. I think part of her masterplan is also to indirectly audition these police force for her new business venture, the production of ‘The Real Gerak Khas’.
3. What’s the point of having only one supermarket in the whole of this PAS governed state separating men and women while queuing at the cash counter when the lanes for men are handled by lady cashiers?
4. After the existence of Mamak Spicy (one out of just two Mamak outlets there with demistifiers and the works), the night life in KB seem to pick up. Finally, Vincci, Watson’s, Giordano, Secret Recipe and the likes placed themselves there in the new KB Mall, clever investors! Many are not aware, the only kind of supermarkets we have there are those comparable to Fajar Department Store! I learnt that they even order books from Kinokuniya for special interest stuff. Perhaps, PAS will fade away in parallel with the old age generation. Perhaps..
5. How many more cousins who became successful, got married/ got married again/ got babies. Also, discovering who our third, fourth, fifth cousins are. It’s true, every Kelantanese is related to each other (of coursela mummy, that’s why we must stop trying to match make amongst cousins je!). I just found out that my family is somehow related to the Fawzy, Mofaz family….. whaaatever. I think we make the best archeologists in the world if we can understand Sanskrit and Hebrew. They seem to primarily find connections only with successful people though. By the time I’m 80, we should be able to finish tracking all the way back to Adam and Eve.
6. Endless debates about religion which always end up with thorough enlightenment. Somehow, only this discussion is done in English instead of in ‘German’. Berasap-asap!!
KL TT chats:
1. How many good looking cousins we met (the sudden bloomers or newly discovered 6th cousins) and whether they responded to our ‘signals’.
2. Which cousins dressed better.... ok, I'm too old to compete.
3. How many uncles were caught sending SMS secretly or heard saying ‘I miss you’ in the dark corners of the kitchen.
4. Car pool plans for Raya visits for the rest of the month.
5. How much money has gone and how to survive solely on Raya gatherings till next salary comes in.
6. Whine about going back to work on Monday.
But nothing beats Zenprem's hillarious Raya experience, for once he wrote something which everyone can comprehend.
The differences between topics of conversations in hometown and back here in the city:
Hometown chats:
1. Our local prince’s next masterplan; to make or to break the relationship of the two states.
2. Whether Datukship is fit for people who are capable of toying with the local police force, self inflicting a ‘crime’ in public in front of a surprisingly working CCTV. I think part of her masterplan is also to indirectly audition these police force for her new business venture, the production of ‘The Real Gerak Khas’.
3. What’s the point of having only one supermarket in the whole of this PAS governed state separating men and women while queuing at the cash counter when the lanes for men are handled by lady cashiers?
4. After the existence of Mamak Spicy (one out of just two Mamak outlets there with demistifiers and the works), the night life in KB seem to pick up. Finally, Vincci, Watson’s, Giordano, Secret Recipe and the likes placed themselves there in the new KB Mall, clever investors! Many are not aware, the only kind of supermarkets we have there are those comparable to Fajar Department Store! I learnt that they even order books from Kinokuniya for special interest stuff. Perhaps, PAS will fade away in parallel with the old age generation. Perhaps..
5. How many more cousins who became successful, got married/ got married again/ got babies. Also, discovering who our third, fourth, fifth cousins are. It’s true, every Kelantanese is related to each other (of coursela mummy, that’s why we must stop trying to match make amongst cousins je!). I just found out that my family is somehow related to the Fawzy, Mofaz family….. whaaatever. I think we make the best archeologists in the world if we can understand Sanskrit and Hebrew. They seem to primarily find connections only with successful people though. By the time I’m 80, we should be able to finish tracking all the way back to Adam and Eve.
6. Endless debates about religion which always end up with thorough enlightenment. Somehow, only this discussion is done in English instead of in ‘German’. Berasap-asap!!
KL TT chats:
1. How many good looking cousins we met (the sudden bloomers or newly discovered 6th cousins) and whether they responded to our ‘signals’.
2. Which cousins dressed better.... ok, I'm too old to compete.
3. How many uncles were caught sending SMS secretly or heard saying ‘I miss you’ in the dark corners of the kitchen.
4. Car pool plans for Raya visits for the rest of the month.
5. How much money has gone and how to survive solely on Raya gatherings till next salary comes in.
6. Whine about going back to work on Monday.
But nothing beats Zenprem's hillarious Raya experience, for once he wrote something which everyone can comprehend.
posted by Maine at 1:37 PM
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